Posts Categorized: Kindness in Healthcare

When my son was diagnosed with autism as a toddler, my world wasn’t destroyed, but it did shrink. Instead of focusing on my family, friends, and the world around me, he suddenly became the center of my universe, and anything… Read more

Having surgery didn’t scare me. It terrified me. I’d never been put under with anesthesia before, and that, combined with my love of horror stories, didn’t help. I envisioned waking up during the procedure, just like the unfortunate characters in… Read more

Brandi Hicks said she learned selflessness and the spirit of giving from her adoptive parents starting from when she was 6 months old and they took her in. Thirty years later, she’s giving back by donating her kidney to the… Read more

Kathy Beitz has been legally blind since she was a child, and she desperately wanted to be able to see her son on the day he was born. So the eSight Corporation — a company that produces special glasses that… Read more

Georgie Craig, of Scarborough, North Yorkshire, in England, was diagnosed with global development delay when he was 1 year old, according to his fundraising page. The disability affects his movement and ability to communicate, leaving Georgie, now 3, unable to… Read more